A study on species composition of rodents in Luqu County

In order to implement the project of “Luqu County grassland rodent integrated controlthe demonstration construction at county level”, the composition and distribution of rodent species in Luqu County were surveyed during the period of 2008 to 2011. The results showed that there were 38 species of redents belonging to 6 families, 7 subfamilies, 19 genera in Luqu County. The rodent species account for 74.51% of the total rodent species recorded in Gannan prefecture though the area of Luqu is only 13.18% of Gannan prefecture. These results also indicated that the habitat conditions and rodent species composition in Luqu had a certain representation in Gannan prefecture. Finally, it was concluded that grassland rodents (60.53%) and forest rodents (26.32%) were the main body of the rodent species composition in Luqu.